Towards a more accountable United Nations Security Council
By: by Carolyn M. Evans
Series: Legal aspects of international organization -- volume 61; Legal aspects of international organization -- 61
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9789004444294; 9789004444300
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: International Security; United Nations. Security Council
Description: "Reform discourse about the United Nations Security Council gives every reason to believe that flaws in its legal and institutional design prevent the Council from adequately meeting its responsibility to maintain or restore international peace and security - in part by allowing the Council to act in an ad hoc and unprincipled manner. In Towards a more accountable United Nations Security Council, Carolyn Evans argues that enhanced accountability of the Council, and corresponding evolution of practice, are feasible, salutary changes towards the Council better answering its raison d'être. Discussion proceeds by probing the why, to whom, for what, and how, of Council accountability - four corners of concerns central to seeing any actor held accountable"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Security Council productiveness & accountability; title: Why should the Security Council be accountable?; title: To whom should the Security Council be accountable?; title: For what should the Security Council be accountable?; title: How could the Council be made more accountable?; title: The Council's call : Hercules or Sisyphus?